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Friday, September 1, 2017

Wow.... It's been awhile, hasn't it? My last post when live back in April!

In the last few months, lots of things have changed! My husband graduated with a degree in CIS from our shared alma mater. He scored a new job an hour and a half from our home. And we moved! We now live thirty minutes from his job and an hour from mine. Yep, that's right! I'm commuting every day!

Friday, April 14, 2017

Some time back, I pinned this fun pixel heart from Robert Kaufman. I decided I wanted to create a play on an "I Spy" quilt but in heart shape. I decided that the original quilt would be too large for a baby quilt. I used 3.5" squares to create this quilt.

I started with 14 fabrics (compared to the 28 fabrics designated in the pattern). I actually ended up incorporating some other fabrics from my other quilts that I really liked - polka dots, elephant print.

Keeping the fabric in the proper order was the most difficult part!

I ended up keeping the squares on spare piece of fabric and wrapping it up when I wasn't working on it!

Friday, April 7, 2017

I have been following along the Solstice Challenge hosted by Pat Sloan (click here for details). I haven't actually committed to creating the blocks. That being said, I had to create the cobble stone quilt! You can find the details here.

This quilt is wonderfully happy with jelly rolls. I found a fun gold and bright pink jelly roll at JoAnn Fabic. While there I found some prettily patterned teal fabrics to pair with the pink. I was quite happy to find all of these pairing on one trip!

I used every piece of the jelly roll to create this quilt. I may have a few small pieces left!

Look! There's Zoey!

I took these photos during the same photo shoot as this quilt and this one. I have one more quilt to showcase next week!

Friday, March 31, 2017

As I stated in a previous post, many of my friends are having babies so I've been turning out baby quilts!

This quilt was meant to be as I already had the jelly roll and it perfectly matches the nursery colors! I haven't a clue the name of the jelly roll though I think I purchased it via Amazon. It's been so long that I'm not entirely sure!

This ended up being five blocks by six blocks due to a cutting snafu. Basically when I was cutting the squares I managed to veer off-course and mangled the block. However, I'm still quite pleased with the ending piece!

Friday, March 24, 2017

Back in 2011, I became friends with a fellow online student via email and our online classroom. We chatted quite a bit that term. After the term we continued our friendship via Facebook. We never actually met but we kept up with each other as she moved with her husband and their growing family to his different military assignments.

Last year, she gave birth to their first son and I wanted to gift not only her son with a quilt but her three girls as well. I also wanted to use this fun fabric that I found in my local WalMart.

Thus, this sweet quilt was born!

I used a fun grey and teal polka dot as one-half of the triangle and used eight other fabrics to create the pinwheels.

I had a lot of fun taking photos of this quilt (and the others that I will share).

Fun Fact: I actually work at the university that I earned my undergrad and graduate degrees. These photos were taken at the building and grounds of our business college. My husband is a current student there! Funny enough this building was the library prior to the current building. And I work in the new library!